With the objective to enhance the marketing of quality seed, three SPCs (Misoma Gudina, Abdi Gudina, and Jalela Bishan Babile) conducted mini-seed marketing at Guba Koricha woreda, Bube Kebele on May 1, 2019. Continue reading

ISSD’s Oromia Unit facilitated a training of 32 professionals to support seed producer cooperatives in their management practices. Continue reading

ISSD’s Oromia East Unit organised a workshop with key stakeholders to address pressing supply and marketing issues in Hararghe zones. Continue reading

Download and read about the latest activities and achievements of ISSD Ethiopia over the previous months; as well as gain insights into current focus areas. Continue reading

The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EAIR) and Regional Agricultural Research Institutes (RARIs) are key seed sector stakeholders. These institutes have a lead role in variety development, variety maintenance and quality EGS production. To support and strengthen their efforts ISSD… Continue reading

Ensuring seed supply matches demand is a complex national process. Various institutional bottlenecks continue to result in farmers not getting seed of the varieties they want, while unused seed sits as carryover, degrading and potentially becoming unusable. ISSD and partners… Continue reading

Across 2018, regional and national seed sector stakeholders have engaged intensively, shaping an action agenda to transform the seed sector. Continue reading

Nodal farmers’ role and motivations to exchange seed in their locality formed the topic of recent research. ISSD Tigray Unit facilitated a Wageningen University (Netherlands) researcher to conduct a seed social network analysis, concluding that while nodal farmer self-interest plays… Continue reading